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This collection contains documents, photographs, newspapers, certificates, books, booklets, programs, artifacts, and posters containing information on various people, families, organizations, fraternities, sororities, businesses, churches, schools and universities in and around South Florida. The collection was donated and created by Mrs. Gwendolyn H. Welters (1924-2013). Mrs. Welters was a secretary, educator and administrator with a career spanning 40 years in the Miami-Dade Public School system. She was active in the community and was involved in various clubs, churches, and organizations. She was married to Dr. Warren Welters, a registered pharmasist, who ran the Brownsville Drug Store, where Mrs. Welters also worked.
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BLK Publishing Company, publicated 41 magazine issues between 1988-1994 specifically about LGBTQ issues, contoversies and events that affected the community.
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The Map Collection is an assortment of different maps from various sources detailing historic Florida, 1980's Miami and many Overtown projects.
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Photos range from the early twentieth century until the 1980s.The Miriam and William Doughtry Collection contains family records, including photos, awards and recognitions, and invitations. Music books and record albums were also donated.
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This collection contains information on the Dorsey High School Alumni Association. It contains photos, records, documents, correspondence, booklets, and other materials on the association and the various events it organized for the alumni of the Dorsey High School. Dorsey High School is a former high school in Miami that was originally a Senior High, but was converted into a Junior High in 1951 and remained as such until Dade County Schools were desegregated.
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The Sylvan Meyer Civil Rights Book Collection, is contains books regarding the Civil Rights Movement with insights of racial relations. This collection also has journals and reports with statistical and historical contents. The collection also includes hearings from the United States Commission and The Supreme Court.
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The Carolyn Knox Dunnell collection consists of photographs of the Booker T. Washington High School under construction in the 1970s. The photographs are divided based on the original boards of which they were displayed. There are newspaper clippings and articles regarding both the Booker T. Washington High School reconstruction as well as former Miami commissioner Arthur E. Teele Jr.
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The Mays Family Collection is a grouping of various documents having to do with the Mays Family, a written history, photographs and programs. Included in this collections are materials relating to Mays High School, now known as the Arthur and Polly Mays Conservatory of the Arts.
1933-2006
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This collection consist of the papers of George H. Early, a veteran who served in the U.S Army and in the U.S Armed Forces Reserves. This collection contains military records, certificates, correspondences, copies of the newspaper Nite Life c.1948 and obituaries.
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This collection consist of the personal materials collected by Leroy Morrison. The items in this collection contains information on Morrison career as a singer in the 1960's, pohotographs of Lerroy Morrison, Della Humphries, Michial Welch and of the Key West African Cemetery. This collection also has information on the 1974 benefit concert to save Christian Hospital.
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The Mercelee Adderly Collection is comprised of various personal papers and awards received by Mercelee Adderly; a native Miamian and a graduate of Booker T. Washington Highs School. Mercelee Adderly a Miami-Dade Public School Teacher having taught from 1961 untill 1991. Even after her retirement she continued to win awards for her dedication and support to local schools.
The collection is made up of awards, diplomas, various ephemera, newspaper clippings, and photographs.1957-2011
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The Elry Sands Collection holds many programs documenting the events organized by several Collegiate groups, and churches and local Florida schools. Delta Sigma Theta chapter of FAMU is heavily featured, The Egelloc Civic, Booker T. Washignton, Liberty City Elementary, and George Washignton Carver Jr. High all also appear in collection. Mount Olivette programs and other local churches are also present. Within the collection are also a wide assortment of obituaries.
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1930-2012
This collection is about Clarence Edwards, an unrivaled political operative, and a distinct Richmond Heights community leader. Through his life Clarence Edwards achieved a great deal, he served in the Korean War receiving various medals by the time of his Honorable Discharge. Edwards was also heavily involved with the community helping his first wife Olivia Love Edwards open the Richmond Heights Drug Store that became a staple of the Richmond Heights community serving all and giving many first jobs to local kids. Edwards was also influential in national and local politics with presidential correspondences, invitations and the thanks of many legendary Florida politicians.
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1959-2002
This collection details the lives of Mercelee Adderly, Lancelot Jones and Sarah Woods.These individuals shared a familial connection. Inside details multiple awards given to Adderly and Woods, and much of Jones's enviromental contributions to what is now Biscanye National Park. Further there is detail on Porgy Key and its historical significance from 1897-1992.
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1994-2016
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This collection consist of books, 1 DVD, and 7 postors signed by civil rights activist and co-founder of The Black Panthers, Bobby Seale. The subject of the materials is regarding the Black Panther Party and Bobby Seale.
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Mayme E. Williams was a teacher, counselor, administrator, consultant in High School and College, and a humanitarian. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio and was a single child of Albert and Mayme Smith. She was married to Charles L. Williams.She graduated from Wilberforce and Arkansas Universities and recieved her Masters Degree from New York University. She is a member of the Roman Catholic Church and has many offices. Formally taught Social Studies at Winston Salem, North Carolina and Ft, Smith, Arkansas and Booker T. Washington High School. She was an Assistant Pricipal at Booker T. Washington. Mayme's first year in Miami she served as a first grade teacher in Douglas Elementary. Maybe had a strong hand in helping Douglas Elementary be rated as the best Negro school in the County. She served on the Board of Directors for Urban League, Y.W.C.A., Girl Scouts, Welfare Planning Council, one of the founding group of women in Community Service, National Conference of Christians and Jews, and the International League for Peace and Freedom. Appointed by President Eisenhower to serve on the First House Conference on Education(only negro of 35 membership Committee).
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This collection includes personal documents about the Spearman family, the Paschal family, The King Of Clubs of Greater Miami, INC., The MRS Club, The Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, as well as the Neighborhood Center Program/ EOPI, obituaries, photographs and programs from other community events.
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Sonny Wright was the chairman of Peoples National Bank of Commerce, Florida's first blank-owned bank. In the 1980's, Wright utilized his time as the chairman of Peoples National to create interest in black theater and support black Miami art programming through loan agreements.